Mais
org · Latin script
Meaning: from 'wood cutting'; especially Bavarian/Tyrolean
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mais is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 65K
- ISIceland1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from 'wood cutting'; especially Bavarian/Tyrolean
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mais counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 35 | — | 8 |
| US United States | 331 | 1 in 1M | 822 | Mais | 212 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 232K | listed | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 157 | 1 in 65K | 157 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 26 | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the dz-kaggle-names register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mais is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name from Middle High German meiz ‘cleared land’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short form of the personal name Thomas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Portuguese, used to form the comparative of adjectives and adverbs; more; -er
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In idb, forms the comparative and superlative of adjectives; more
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, maize; a grain crop of the species Zea mays; corn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henry Coathupe Maisb. 1827AUengineer (1827-1916)
- Roger Maisb. 1905JMJamaican writer (1905-1955)
- Hugh Maisb. 1907British judge
- Alan Mais, Baron Maisb. 1911GBLord Mayor of London (1911-1993)
- Alfons Maisb. 1962DEGerman Lieutenant General and Chief of the German Army
- Mais Barkhudarovb. 1976AZAzerbaijani military officer (born 1976)
- Mais Hamdanb. 1982EGJordanian actress
- Luisa Maisb. 2001DEGerman association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 282 | #27,579 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 157 | #6,259 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 153 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 151 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 150 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 142 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49 | #27,579 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 35 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #4,130 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mais mean, and where does it come from?
- from 'wood cutting'; especially Bavarian/Tyrolean Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Mais have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Mais in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mais?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331 people named Mais in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.